- Volume 11 (2013), Issue 1
- Vol. 11 (2013), No. 1
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- Pages 2 - 16
- pp. 2 - 16
Traditional environmental law has a rather modest ‘concept of time’: It tries to preserve a present status of environment and copes with specific conflicts arising from competing economic or social interests in the present. But today a new concept of environmental law is rising that shifts from the solution of manageable and containable (mostly local) conflicts in the present to a holistic attempt to restructure the society to serve supposed and ra